I'm a novice, myself, but Clojure got me reading up on Scheme and, what about the PLaneT thing (require (planet blah ...
(where dependencies are automatically pulled from a repository?) Maybe it's not applicable here, but I thought it was pretty neat. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@laposte.net>wrote: > > On 13.05.2009, at 00:04, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > > > Now that Clojure 1.0 is out, I think it's a good time to take a > > look at > > contrib. I noticed it didn't get an official 1.0 release along with > > Clojure core. I wonder if this is because its role is just not very > > well-defined. Several people have expressed this opinion here on the > > mailing list and on IRC. > > I'd say the real question is not "what is contrib?" but "what kind of > library system should Clojure have?" > > I think that it is clear to most of us that contrib started as > something which it isn't any more. At the moment, it's a bucket of > code whose only common point is the licence, which allows it to be > distributed under exactly the same terms as Clojure itself, whatever > those may become. > > As I have said before, I strongly believe that Clojure should have a > standard library. Contrib could then become the staging ground for > both code and the standard library. But the important question is > about the standard library, not about the fate of contrib. > > Alternatively, we could also envisage something like the Haskell > platform: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ > > This is a collection of separately written libraries distributed as a > single package with a single installation procedure. I think an > officially labelled and maintained standard library is important, but > there could well be a collection of independent (and differently > licenced) libraries on top of that. > > Konrad. > > > > > -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
